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The rooftop garden mitigates the urban heat island effect by replacing what was a ballasted, black tar roof with green plants. The garden absorbs less heat from the sun than the tar roof, keeping City Hall cooler in summer and requiring less energy for air conditioning.
The City of Chicago's Green Roof dataset and corresponding map provides the location, satellite images, and square footage of existing green roofs within the City of Chicago.
3 Οκτ 2012 · This map and corresponding dataset provide the location, satellite images and square footage of existing green roofs within the City of Chicago.
16 Νοε 2022 · With over 500 green roofs and 13 rooftop farms, the city is one of the greenest in America, reaping the benefits of biodiversity, mitigating rainwater runoff and the urban heat island effect and saving thousands of dollars in utility bills.
20 Δεκ 2023 · Green roofs can be used to improve public health and environmental control in urban cities like Chicago through their ability to reduce temperatures, energy use, dust and smog, and noise levels, as well as improving aesthetics, stormwater management, and public health through their vegetation layers and cooling effects.
24 Μαρ 2022 · The 20,300 square foot City Hall rooftop garden has over 20,000 herbaceous plants installed as plugs of more than 150 varieties including 100 woody shrubs, 40 vines and 2 trees – a Cockspur Hawthorn and Prairie Crabapple.
